James Pethokoukis

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has the option of extending his authority to spend TARP money until October 2010. Congress should forcefully discourage him from doing so, even if it means stripping that authority.

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Here is Obama economic guru Larry Summers at the Economic Club of New York: “I don’t find there to be much evidence that suggests that raising top marginal tax rates from 35 to 39 percent that will be implicit in the repeal of the Bush tax rates will do substantial damage to incentives in the economy.”